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294 WASHINGTON STREET, BOSTON, NLA 02108
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storic Name Robert P. Clapp House
ARCHITECTURAL SIGNIFICANCE (Describe important architectural features and
evaluate in terms of other buildings within the community.)
This house has one of the finest towers in Lexington. Projecting from the
facade more than a half circle, the tower has a nearly free-standing conical
roof with very gentle bell shame and a copper finial at the ton. A one-story
porch with balustrade above extends across the facade and culminates in a
semicircular projection on the right-hand side. A palladian window embellishes
the cable end. The house is fortunate to retain its original finishes including
clapboards shaped to the curve of the tower.
HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE (Explain the role owners played in local or state
history and how the building relates to the development of the community.)
The house was built by PaviC`. A. Tuttle, prolific local builder, for
Robert Parker Clapp, a iawver. Pierian Hill was developed in the 1880s and
1890s by the new, more wealthy residents of Lexington, many of whoa, like
Clapp, commuted to Boston to work.
BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES (name of publication, author, date and publisher)
David A. Tuttle, manuscript list of houses he built, 1904. Lexington Historical
Society Collections.
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